ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,134, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Method and system for application authorization for network slices" was invented by Vinod Kumar Choyi (Conshohocken, Pa.) and Yousif Targali (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a network device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in relation to an application authorization service. The application authorization service may be performed at an end device and invoked responsive to the launching of an application. The application authorization service may include validating an applicati...